Flour-sifter.



N. G. SPENCER- FLOUR' SIFTER. APPLICATION FILED FEB. 25. 1914.

1,148,124. I Patented July 27,1915.

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Application filed February 25, 1914. Serial No. 820,947.

To all whom it may concern Be it known that I, NELLIE G. SPENCER, acitizen of the United States, residing at Seattle, in the county of Kingand State of lVashington, have invented certain new and usefulImprovements in Flour-Sifters, of which the following is aspecification.

This invention relates to kitchen utensils, its object being to furnishan improved flour sifter which will afford a handy and useful device,and facilitate the work of sifting flour.

The sifter is illustrated in the accompanying drawings, which show theform I prefer the invention to take.

Figure 1 is a vertical section of the flour sifter. Fig. 2 is ahorizontal section through 2-2 of Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a perspective viewof the flour agitator shown detached.

In the drawings, 5 represents a cylindrical vessel of suitable size,having open ends and provided with a handle 6. Detachable closures orcovers 7 and 8 are provided for the respective ends of the vessel andone or both of the covers may be provided with a handle, such as 9, torender the removal of the same more convenient.

Intermediate the height of the vessel is a horizontally disposedforaminated partition, or screen, 10 of wire gauze, or other material.Provided above and below said screen are the companion members of anagitator, said members being joined together and formed with ends whichextend eXteriorly of the vessel into an operating handle 11.

As shown in the drawings, the referred to agitator is formed of a singlepiece of wire which is provided at about its midlength with a loop 12which joins the above-mentioned companion members. In each of the latterthe wire is looped, as shown in Figs. 2 and 3, to aiford a plurality ofsubstan tially parallel elements 13, 14; and 15. Finally, the wire isextended to within proximity of the loop 12 and thence the ends 16 passthrough a peripheral slot 17 provided in the circular wall of the vessel5 and are socketed in the aforesaid handle 11.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented July 27, 1915.

18 and 19 are arcuate. shaped plates secured to the agitator at theinner and outer sides of the vessel wall to cover the slot 17.

In operating the device, the cover 7 is first removed and the fiourdeposited in the compartment above screen 10. After said cover isreplaced, the sifter is held by the operator grasping the handle 6 inher left hand and with her other hand the agitator is actuated throughthe medium of the handle 11 to cause the same to traverse the screen foragitating the flour and facilitating its passage through the screen. Thecover 7 is again removed and the lumps or particles of flour which weretoo coarse to pass through the screen are dumped out. The cover 7 isthen restored to the vessel and the latter turned upside down, whereuponthe agitator is operated to cause the flour to be re-sifted through thescreen into the compartment now below the screen. The flour may now beremoved if of sufficient fineness or by repeating the above describedoperations it may be re-sifted as many times as deemed requisite.

The cover 8 is removable only for clean ing purposes and by preferenceit is unprovided with a handle.

What I claim as my invention, is

A flour sifter comprising a vessel having a removable closure for eachend, a screen arranged in said vessel mid-way the ends thereof, and anagitator formed of a single piece of wire having an off-set portionintermediate the ends thereof to provide an upper and lower section,each section bent to provide a plurality of elements, with the elementsof each section arranged in parallelism on opposite sides of the screen,the ends of the wire being positioned. adjacent the off-set portion andextending through the side of the vessel to constitute a handle foroperating the agitator.

Signed at Seattle, ash, this 16th day of February, 1914.

NELLIE G. SPENCER. Witnesses:

E. PETERSON, HORACE BARNES.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for five cents each, by addressingthe Gommissioner of Patents, Washington, D. G.

